Profiles in "Anthropology of Religion" Expertise Area
- Astor-Aguilera specializes in Mesoamerican religions and currently conducts holistic interdisciplinary ethnographic investigations of cenote-sinkholes and their associated religious ritual production amongst the Maya peoples.
- Carr's areas of interest include: archaeology, prehistory of eastern North America, religious rituals and knowledge, mortuary practices, and art.
- Steadman's research area is sociocultural anthropology: kinship; religion; witchcraft;and Papua New Guinea
- Henn joined ASU in 2005.
- Juliane Schober is Director of the Center for Asian Research and professor of religious studies at Arizona State University.
- Haines is co-director of ASU's Center of Muslim Experience in the U.S. and associate professor of Religious Studies. As a cultural anthropologist he researches on marginal communities and Islamic values of peace, community wellbeing, and lived ethics.
- Koss studies sociocultural anthropology: medicine and spirituality, and ethnographic research.
- Cassel is trained in the historical and theoretical interaction of science, philosophy, and religion and does research in the evolutionary origins of religion.